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The Magic of Blogging — Popoola on The Blog That Became Her First Novel |...
Teju Cole’s Everyday For the Thief started out as a blog called “Modal Minority.” Tolulope Popoola‘s novel Nothing Comes Close is a spin off from a blog series. What do these success stories tell us...
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“Has Gana Kissed You Yet?”— The New Bride by Oluseun Onigbinde
The “New Bride” is a young girl’s lament for losing a sister to an undeserving suitor. It is not an epistolary, but it will make you think of a letter written by someone who knows the pain of losing...
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“The Smell of Human Flesh”— Poems by Nana Brantuo | Brittle Paper Poet
Nana Brantuo describes herself as a Ghanaian/Sierra Leonean American. In the two poems featured here—”Elmina” and “Kwesi”—she expresses so much so beautifully with so little. Her poems are short,...
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Soyinka’s Novel That Owes Its Existence To A Tin Box
I have borrowed Isara‘s subtitle from John Mortimer‘s play, A Voyage Around My Father. The expression captures in essence what I have tried to do with the content of a tin box which I opened some...
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Price Alert! Buy African Novels At Scandalously Low Price — Adichie, Beukes,...
Being on a budget is no excuse for not satisfying your cravings for African novels. I took a quick look through amazon and found these great titles for cheap. Some are as low as $1.99. There’re kindle...
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Nigerian Filmmaker, Efe Mike-Ifeta, Dishes Out On His New Film, Daddy’s Boy |...
How is writing a novel different from writing a screen play? Why is Nollywood still struggling with writing a decent scripts? After almost 30 years of dominating the African film industry, what does...
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AFRICAN VALENTINE: A Love Song (Trans. from the Amharic)
Valentine’s season begins officially at Brittle Paper with this dreamy little poem. It’s a classic African love number. It’s an Ethiopian poem published in the March 1966 issue of the Achebe-run Black...
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Solve This Literary Puzzle — Six African Authors Are Sitting In A Danfo….
I stole the puzzle from my favorite philosopher, Walter Benjamin. He won’t mind, so let’s go ahead and have some fun with this. All I’d say is that it is a pretty damn difficult nut to crack....
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Teju Cole’s Non-fiction Book Is Titled Radio Lagos: Life, Death, And The...
Looks like fans of Teju Cole may have cause for celebrating. In addition to the US release of Everyday For The Thief, a non-fiction book about Lagos is well on the way. The title is grim,...
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Is African Identity Really Out of Fashion? | Wanuri Kahiu’s TEDxEuston Talk
Wanuri Kahiu (R) on the set of Pumzi Wanuri Kahiu is a brilliant filmmaker. Pumzi, her post-apocalyptic sci-fi short film, was screened at Sundance in 2010 to critical acclaim. In 2009, “From A...
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Whispers to an Empty Wind by Magunga Williams | A Brittle Paper Storyteller
Jowi is on his way to Huruma to visit a sister mourning the death of her husband. On his walk to her house, he reflects on slum life in Nairobi and weaves these reflections into a reminiscences of old...
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African Fictional Characters In Bed — Okonkwo Is Less Talk, More Action
Okonkwo, the late 19th century African man who lived in a village supposedly untouched by European modernity. He represents the fantasy of an African masculinity, pure and untainted by European ideals...
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A Very Serious Matter By Ola Nubi | Brittle Paper Storyteller
Sade [shahday] is a god-fearing and studious medical student. At least so her parents think until they find out that their daughter who has just escaped a ghastly accident has been living a life of...
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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Fan-Fiction Erotica | Thighs Fell Apart by Kiru...
A few day ago, I made everyone who read {THIS} think about what Okonkwo was like in bed. Since I didn’t want to leave anyone in the unfulfilling world of fantasy, I asked Kiru Taye, Nigeria’s queen of...
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Chimamanda on Eating Healthy, Shoes, And Her Obsession With Hair Blogs — Elle...
You have to read this! Last year, Chimamanda shared her philosophy on make up and cosmetics with the British-Zimbabwean actress Thandie Newton. If you missed it, read it {HERE}. This time, in a...
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New Video: Taiye Selasi On Writers Block, Boys (sort of), And Moving Back To...
In this video clip of an interview in Denmark, Taiye Selasi shares one small bit of personal detail about the labor that went into producing her debut novel. Selasi began writing Ghana Must Go in...
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The Beautiful One Has Not Yet Died — An African Story Ensemble
Abiku is the Yoruba word for a caste of spirit beings strangely bound to death. They are born to life as human children but die soon after their birth only to be reborn for yet another cycle of death...
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ADUNNI By Ayodele Olofintuade — Episode 1, “Our Father”
ADUNNI is an 8-episode series about an Abiku—a spirit-being in Yoruba mythology that is born into the human world, dies, and is then reborn in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. In the first...
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AFRICANS ON WRITING: “Poetry is Medicine for Loss”— Yewande Omotosho
“Poetry is often quite personal, autobiographic and linked to specific moments when I seek catharsis. I don’t think of myself as a poet. I use poetry as a kind of medicine for loss, heartache, coming...
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Literary Celebrities, Cocktails, and Music — Get The Scoop on The Etisalat...
The first edition of the Etisalat Prize for Literature is nearing its grand finale. The winner of the 15, 000-pound prize will be announced on the 23rd of this month. The event is scheduled to take...
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